Four-horse hitch



Aug. 25, 1925'.

. A. STACHOFSKI FOUR HORSE HIQC'H I 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed May 5. 1924 Au fzs. 1925. 1550938 v A. STACHOF'SKI FOUR HORSE HITCH Filed May 3. 1924 2 ShBets-Sheet 2 IMENTUR fll/EUET. firm/10mm Patented Aug. 25, 1925.

UNITED STATES AUGUST STACHOFSKI, OF WHITLA, ALBERTA, CANADA.

FOUR-HORSE HITCH.

Application filed May 3,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST STAoHorsKI, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and resident of Whitla, in the Province of Alberta and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Four-Horse Hitches, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in four horse hitches, and the object of the invention is to provide a hitch of this character that can be used for any set of harness in which a hame is employed with bowls and with which no special traces are required.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists essentially in the novel construction and arrangement of parts included in the embodiment of my invention as described in the present specification and illustrated by the accompanying drawings that form part of the same.

Referring now to the drawings, in which like characters of reference indicate cor responding parts in each figure,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an embodiment of my invention in actual use, attached to a set of harness.

Figure 2 is a side view of the device detached.

Figure 3 is a top plan view.

Figure 4 is a front elevation.

Figure 5 is a section on line 5-5 of Fig. 3.

Figure 6 is a. section on line 66 of Fig. 5.

In the drawings A designates the hitch as a whole, comprising an evener 10, preferably of steel, having at the end a clevis 11 to which is attached the connecting chain 12. Substantially midway of the evener is an eye 13 adapted to engage with a link 14 which, in turn, is pivotally connected to the end of an arm 15 formed on a vertically extending bar 16 and at substantially right angles thereto. Pivotally mounted at each end at 17 and 18 is a harness-engaging plate member 19. On this bar 16 adjacent its upper end and formed integral therewith is a forked arm 20 extending substantially in the opposite direction to the arm 15 and having means 21 through the forked end adapted to engage with a harness trace 22, as illustrated in Figure 1.

Referring now to the evener 10 which is link-connected in the centre through the arm 1924. Serial- No. 710,912.

15 to the pivotally mounted bar 16, the lower end of this evener is provided with a clevis 11 adapted to engage through a chain 12 with the end of the trace 25 on the leading horse, while the other end of this evener is pivotally connected to a swivel 26 in turn pivotally mounted in a lug 27 on the 1nember 19.

This member 19 is formed with a channel shaped horizontal portion 27 adapted to engage with the hames 28 and having a downwardly extending recessed portion 29 adapted at its lower end to pivotally support the bar 16, the upper end of the bar being supported in an orificed lug 30 of which the lug 27 is an adjunct. This plate 19 rests on the front of the hames and also on the collar behind and is adapted to provide protection and also to steady the bar.

From the foregoing it will be seen that in operation the pull exerted will be concentrated through the chain 12 and from there distributed or evened by means of the link-connected arm 15 and the swivel connecting the other end of the evener.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely difi'erent embodiments of my invention, within the scope of the claims, constructed without departing from the spirit or scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the accompanying specification and drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A four horse hitch of the character described comprising a harness engaging plate member, a bar pivotally mounted on said member, aneevene-r pivotally connected at one end to the plate and link-connected midway of its length to said bar, and clevis means carried by said evener.

2. In a device of the character described, a harness engaging plate formed with lugs, a bar pivotally mounted between said lugs and provided with a forked arm, an evener pivotally connected to one of said lugs and provided with an eye substantially midway of its length, and link means connecting the eye with said bar.

3. The device as claimed in claim 2 in which one of the lugs formed on the plate is designed to pivotally support one end of the bar and to carry a swivel member connecting said lug with the evener.

4. In a device of the character described, an evener, a plate formed with extensions, a bar pivotally mounted on said extensions, a trace-engaging member on said bar, and an evener pivotally connected at one end to the plate and intermediately link-connected to said bar.

5. In a device of the character described aplate member adapted to contact with the hames and collar of a set of harness, a bar pivotally mounted on said plate, a forked trace engaging member on said bar, an arm on said bar, an evener, link means substantially midway of the evener adapted to connect it and said arm, and a lug formed on said plate having means adapted for pivotal engagement with one end of the evener and said bar respectively.

6. In a device of the character described,

an evener, a plate, means on said plate in hand.

y AUGUST STAGI-IOFSKI. 

